Tire Thief, Gun Thief

Stealing tires is an ordinary sort of crime – but 24 of them? At once?

The Kent County sheriff reports unknown suspects cut a padlock and entered a storage shed on Back Street in Millington, belonging to Mountaire Farms of Delaware.

“The suspect(s) proceeded to remove 24 large truck tires valued at $11,200,” the sheriff’s office said. The case is currently under investigation.

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Deputies report that Jolane Ellen McCoy of Millington reported the theft of a Colt .45 Goldcup pistol and a Winchester 12 gauge Model 120 from her home on School Road.

During the investigation Jerry Lee Stanton, 50, of Clayton, De., “was developed as a suspect, ” as the report put it. He was charged with three counts of burglary and held on $50,000 bond.

The Winchester shotgun was returned to McCoy.